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A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer

youtubesequencer.com
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Dedekind's Subtle Knife

wordpress.com

“Think about the knife tip. That is where you are. Now feel with it, very gently....
“Think about the knife tip. That is where you are. Now feel with it, very gently. You’re looking for a gap so small you could never see it with your eyes, but the knife tip will find it, if you put your mind there. Feel along the air till you sense the smallest little gap in the world…” – Philip Pullman, “The Subtle...
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Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust

github.com
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Small Tech

scattered-thoughts.net
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance

phoronix.com

Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090...
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to th...

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Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?

theguardian.com

Life must be great as a baby: to be fed and clothed and carried places in...
Life must be great as a baby: to be fed and clothed and carried places in soft pouches, to be waved and smiled at by adoring strangers, to have the temerity to scream because food hasn’t arrived quickly enough, and then to throw it on the ground when it is displeasing. It’s a shame none of us recalls exactly how goo...
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New Technology Reveals Details About Indigenous Habitations in Desert Canyons

smithsonianmag.com
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Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat

nasa.gov

Only about 25 percent of the energy in every gallon of gasoline you buy actually helps...
Only about 25 percent of the energy in every gallon of gasoline you buy actually helps your vehicle to run. The rest is converted to heat, which is radiated uselessly off of your engine or blown out of your exhaust pipe. Researchers at JPL are helping automakers develop technology to capture and recover that wasted ...

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The "Unbreakable" Beer Glasses of East Germany

hackaday.com

We like drinking out of glass. In many ways, it’s an ideal material for the job....
We like drinking out of glass. In many ways, it’s an ideal material for the job. It’s hard-wearing, and inert in most respects. It doesn’t interact with the beverages you put in it, and it’s easy to clean. The only problem is that it’s rather easy to break. Despite its major weakness, glass still reigns supreme over...
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Hundreds fired at aviation safety agency, union says

bbc.com

The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the...
The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC.Several hundreds of the agency's probationary workers - who have generally been i...
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'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos

sfgate.com
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Large Language Models Show Concerning Tendency to Flatter Users

substack.com

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08177Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a concerning trend among leading AI language models: they...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08177Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a concerning trend among leading AI language models: they exhibit a strong tendency toward sycophancy, or excessive flattery, with Google's Gemini showing the highest rate of such behavior. This discovery raises significant questio...
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Find Your 2%Ers

substack.com

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.this introvert vs. extrovert thing.i think we’ve...
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.this introvert vs. extrovert thing.i think we’ve got it all wrong.///today, most folks understand it’s not a question of one’s social skills, but rather of where you draw your energy from.extroverts get energy from being around others.introverts need ti...
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Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group linked to killings

pressdemocrat.com

The apparent leader of a cultlike group known as the Zizians has been arrested in Maryland...
The apparent leader of a cultlike group known as the Zizians has been arrested in Maryland along with another member of the group. BOSTON — The apparent leader of a cultlike group known as the Zizians has been arrested in Maryland along with another member of the group, Maryland State Police said Monday. Jack Lasota...
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Privacy Is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset

privacyguides.org

Photo: Markus Spiske / Pexels In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two...
Photo: Markus Spiske / Pexels In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse that I find very damaging to privacy as a whole. The first one is the idea that privacy is dead, implying it's not worth putting any effort to protect personal data anymore. This is the abdication mindset. Th...
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On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi

benningtonreview.org

PrologueSOMEHOW MY FATHER CONVINCED MY mother to squander a date night and watch David Lynch’s Dune...
PrologueSOMEHOW MY FATHER CONVINCED MY mother to squander a date night and watch David Lynch’s Dune when it was in the theaters in 1984. I was seven; my sister, five. When we asked about the movie, my mother or my father or both—they may’ve coordinated their anecdote—told me they knew they were in trouble when the t...
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Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas?

ycombinator.com
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Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash

bbc.com

Tom GerkenTechnology reporterArgentine President Javier Milei is facing impeachment calls - and legal action accusing him...
Tom GerkenTechnology reporterArgentine President Javier Milei is facing impeachment calls - and legal action accusing him of fraud - over his promotion of cryptocurrency on social media.Milei posted on X, formerly Twitter, about the $LIBRA coin on Friday, which he said would help fund small businesses and start-ups....
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Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux

previnder.com

With OpenSSL, it’s pretty easy to generate a simple self-signed TLS certificate. Just run the following...
With OpenSSL, it’s pretty easy to generate a simple self-signed TLS certificate. Just run the following command:1openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -days 365 -nodes -keyout cert.key -out cert.crt The files that this command generates, cert.key and cert.crt, could be passed to a web server, for example, and i...
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Mt32-pi developer quits due to community harassment

github.com
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NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES

github.com
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Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]

auckland.ac.nz
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List of DRM-Free Bookshops

libreture.com
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Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom'

9news.com.au

The stranger than strange Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is one of the tallest unoccupied...
The stranger than strange Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world, and Englishman Simon Cockerell may be one of only two westerners to have ever been allowed inside.Having visited the hermit state around 200 times through working as a tour guide, a personal co...
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